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  • Her interest in the French language began with a governess who read ... and Jean Cocteau along with English-language writers Ford Madox Ford ...
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  • paper, La Croix, apologized for its anti-Semitic editorials during the Dreyfus ... novels ever written in the French language, the novel—an uncompromisingly ...
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  • passages and not to interpret all of the language literally. ... be contained in any finite vessel or language. Scripture has been written ...
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  • * Farbridge, Maurice H. Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism. The Library of Biblical studies. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1970. ISBN 978 ...
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  • boundary, there were groups that shared a language, culture, or other similarity ... the seventh century introduced the Arabic language and Islam to North Africa ...
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  • ancient Egyptians spoke an Afro-Asiatic language, related to Chadic, Berber ... The ancient Egyptians spoke an Afro-Asiatic language related to Chadic ...
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  • to New York. This was mainly because of the anti-Semitic laws promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini which threatened Laura, who was ...
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  • Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language ... The American Language was Mencken's 1919 book about changes Americans ...
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  • are female adjectives from the Proto-Semitic root LYL "night" ... * Langdon, Stephen L. The Mythology of All Races Volume V Semitic ...
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  • always been regarded as sacred. In an ancient Semitic tradition the bare rock at the top was thought to be the mouth of the serpent Tahum and the intersection ...
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  • attempts were made to trace the West Semitic Yah back to Babylonia. Assyriologist ... In fact, archaeologists and language experts indicate that it is difficult ...
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  • to confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing ... 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And ...
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  • by the 1882 May Laws. Waves of anti-Semitic pogroms (riots against a ... or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political ...
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  • attacking his Jewish editors with anti-Semitic slurs (and implying that ... The impact of his writings on Romanian poetic language was revolutionary ...
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  • into neighboring areas. About 3500 B.C.E., semitic-speaking peoples of Arabian ... is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers ...
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  • (U.S.) publishing, and the Berlitz language schools. He also owned a ... in the twentieth century, as well anti-semitic sentiments, all of which ...
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  • He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English ... with a first-class degree in English language in 1915, Tolkien joined ...
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  • were seen as Jewish, it was easy for anti-Semitic activists in Hungary to fuel fears of "Jewish-Bolshevist" conspiracy. Another was ...
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  • Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers ... Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages ...
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  • In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ... expect to find Isaiah using more explicit language to indicate that a virgin ...
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